例 3
3. The soft drink company’s flat earnings for the second quarter reflect the success of both its restructured global bottling system and the extent to which poor currency exchange rates keep down profits for multinational companies.
A. reflect the success of both its restructured global bottling system and the extent to which poor currency exchange rates keep
B. reflect both the success of its restructured global bottling system and the extent to which poor currency exchange rates are keeping
C. reflect both the success of its restructured global system and the extent of poor currency exchange rates keeping
D. both reflect the success of its restructured global bottling system and to what extant poor currency exchange rates are keeping
E. both reflect the success of its restructured global bottling system and to what extent poor currency exchange rages are keeping
这道题目排除剩下BC的时候,很多同学都抓耳挠腮,不知如何下手。那我们来一起看看。先说C选项,写的是extent of, 所以 extent 后的核心词说的是poor currency exchange rates, 翻译出来就是" 货币汇率的程度 "。
而B选项写的是一个which引导的定语从句,我们把 extent 带入到 which 里,句子就变成poor currency exchange rates are keeping down profits for multinational companies tothe extent , 翻译出来就是" 货币汇率使跨国公司的的利润降低到某种程度 ",这里强调的是 keep down profit 的程度,显然 B的逻辑更优。
例 4
4. The widely accepted big bang theory holds that the universe began in an explosive instant ten to twenty billion years ago and has been expanding ever since.
(A) that the universe began in an explosive instant ten to twenty billion years ago and has been expanding
(B) that the universe had begun in an explosive instant ten to twenty billion years ago and had been expanding
(C) that the beginning of the universe was an explosive instant ten to twenty billion years ago that has expanded
(D) the beginning of the universe to have been an explosive instant ten to twenty billion years ago that is expanding
(E) the universe to have begun in an explosive instant ten to twenty billion years ago and has been expanding
再看例4我们是不是容易选了很多,ABC是说 big bang theory hold 的是整个一件事情,而D说的是big bang theory就是beginning, E说的是bigbang theory就是universe。 优选ABC。由此可见核心语义转换套路也可以运用在宾语从句上。
例 5
5. In late 1997, the chambers inside the pyramid of the Pharaoh Menkaure at Giza were closed to visitors for cleaning and repair due to moisture exhaled by tourists, which raised its humidity to such levels so that salt from the stone was crystallizing and fungus was growing on the walls.
(A) due to moisture exhaled by tourists, which raised its humidity to such levels so that salt from the stone was crystallizing
(B) due to moisture that tourists had exhaled, thereby raising its humidity to such levels that salt from the stone would crystallize
(C) because tourists were exhaling moisture, which had raised the humidity within them to levels such that salt from the stone would crystallize
(D) because of moisture that was exhaled by tourists raising the humidity within them to levels so high as to make the salt from the stone crystallize
(E) because moisture exhaled by tourists had raised the humidity within them to such levels that salt from the stone was crystallizing
大家都听说过because+从句 一般会优于due to/ because of+ 名词,原因是什么呢? 其实也是这个道理。 E选项整个句子都是原因,而ABD说的都是moisture是原因,语义不完整。
敲重点:
看完以上题目,我们会发现一个规律,核心语义是一件事情一般会优于核心语义是一个词的选项,没错~ 就是这样! 那下面我们在来看几道,核心语义都是一个词的题目~